Bit uh a pickle yer in, innit?

Adobe Flash is a good start. Look up some tutorials on how to accomplish what you want. As for how long it would take, it's difficult to say. What are the 2 backgrounds? What are your two characters doing? It could take anywhere from a day to a week, depending on how good you want to make it. Animation is arguably one of the most time consuming and least rewarding work processes ever, meaning it requires a lot of patience.

This is of course assuming you've got a tablet and know how to draw.

>What programs do I use?
Flash
>Is flash viable option?
yes
>How long would it take to create 1-minute animation with 2 different backgrounds and about 6 moving characters?
For someone with no experience whatsoever? Months.

Turns out it was a monkey.

>How long would it take to create 1-minute animation with 2 different backgrounds and about 6 moving characters?

I'm not in animation, but a good rule of thumb I've heard from pros is this:

Consider the amount of time you think it will take. Now double that amount. Then double that amount again. That is your new realistic estimate.

>>2436125
I'd honestly go with TV Paint Animation pro. It's common when beginning flash to slowly develop that shitty flash animation YouTube videos look you see people doing. Hanna-Barbera was always hand drawn and kinda loose feeling so you'd want to go with frame by frame which is pretty shitty on Flash. Flash seems to make everything look really smooth whereas frame-by-frame animating in TV Paint will give you that really squash and stretch hanna-barbera style.

why didnt evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder

>>2436309

I love karl, I should watch the moaning of life